You know, I'm told that one of the most popular television shows is a show called Extreme Makeover.

And this is how it works.

Scouts go around the country interviewing people who have suffered emotional trauma because of their physical appearances, be it oversized nose, don't look at me,

crooked teeth, overweight, undesirable facial features, or whatever physical problem that is causing

the person in a pain, whatever it may be. And they go and

interview all these people, these scouts go out and many individuals are interviewed, many people,

even more people apply, but only the select fortunate few who make the cut. And I've read that the joy and the elation of these fortunate few have been selected

is overwhelming when they hear that they've been selected.

In fact, the reporter said that on hearing this good news, these selected people for that extreme makeover are more elated

and more joyful than after the operations and the work itself. Now, I'm not going to stand

here for a moment even, criticize or belittle, but I can tell you with absolute assurance, with absolute certainty,

that whatever physical changes that take place, whatever physical transformation that occurs,

whatever radical outward appearance that comes about in a person, no one has ever claimed

that the inner person has been transformed. No one has ever claimed that the heart and the mind have

been altered. No one has ever claimed that the state of the

person's conscience has been eased or relieved. At best, I'm told, what has taken place on the

outside temporarily, operative word here temporarily, affects the way the person feels for a short period of time.

And once the person gets used to their new look, that feeling of elation, and excitement and joy,

dissipates. Now today I want to tell you about a real extreme makeover, the real makeover.

A makeover that thoroughly changes the inside as well as the outside.

An extreme makeover that will radically transform not only the physical but the eternal. An extreme makeover that will

permanently modify not only the present but the future. An extreme makeover that will completely

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